Purpose: To describe your dream preschool classroom and yard for 24 children. Yo
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Purpose:
To describe your dream preschool classroom and yard for 24 children. Your description should discuss developmentally-appropriate practice as well as include California Community Care Licensing Regulations information relating to square footage. Include the indoor and outdoor square footage required for 24 preschool children required by Community Care Licensing (not for one child but for 24).
Assignment:
Paragraph 1. Children's area: Describe the room. Imagine walking into a room and then describing it to someone over the phone. The description should be an overview of the room.
Paragraph 2. After you have described the room, please address a. through e. below separately.
a. How would you set up the room? Describe the room including storage space.
b. What learning centers (for example, art, blocks...include a minimum of five) would you include? Remember, these are learning centers, not specific activities for a day.
c. What is the developmental domain addressed in each center? Address each center separately. physical domain, the cognitive domain (which includes language), and the psychosocial domain What benefit do you hope children will derive from each center? Address each area separately. The developmental domain and the benefit to children must be different.
d. What kinds of equipment and supplies will you have available to children in each of your learning centers? Address each center separately.
Paragraph 3. Teacher's area
a. What will your teacher's area look like? Describe it in detail How will you accommodate a teacher's need for space?
b. How will you accommodate a teacher's need for storage?
c. How will you accommodate a place for teachers to talk with parents in private? Please describe your space for parent conferences.
Paragraph 4. Parent's Area
a. What will your parent information system look like? Describe it in detail. When messages or other communications are left for parents, where will they be located in your room? Please describe what the parent communication system will resemble in some detail. How will you handle confidential written communications?
Paragraph 5. The Yard
a. What will your yard look like? Describe it in detail. Imagine walking into a yard and describing it to someone.
b. What learning centers will be available to children (include a minimum of five)? The learning centers in the yard must differ from those described in the room. Address each center separately. Remember, an activity is not a learning center.
c. What is the developmental domain addressed in each of your learning centers? Address each center separately using the same procedure used to describe the developmental domain behind each center in the room, applying the domains of development from your child development course. Only these three domains are acceptable.
d. What benefit do you hope children will derive from each center? Address each center separately. Developmental domain and benefit to children must differ.
e. What kinds of equipment and supplies will you have available to children? Address each center separately.
f. What kind of fencing and climbing structures will be available? Where will your outdoor storage be located?
Paragraph 6. Include in your descriptions:
a. a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher for both the room and yard; please note that two first aid kits and two fire extinguishers must be included in the description.
b. indoor cubbies;
c. tables and chairs for children's snack/mealtimes;
d. an isolation area should a child become ill;
e. two exits in the classroom.
Paragraph 7. Also, include in your dream classroom:
a. a telephone;
b. a sign-in area.
Explanation / Answer
Note* This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily.
I have written the answer in points for easy reference; you can review it and change it to paragraphs.
Paragraph 1.
Children's area: The room is to be an area of 800 sq. Ft. Out of which a 200 sq. Ft. Area will be designated as the teacher’s office. The room is a perfect rectangle. This means it has 4 corners. The back of the room has a glass window. Beyond the glass window is the 200sq.ft. teacher’s office. It has a glass window for the teacher to be able to keep an eye on her students (like in a restaurant where you can see into the kitchen from a glass window). The teacher’s space will have its own desk and phone. This will enable the teacher to hold private meetings here.
Paragraph 2. After you have described the room, please address a. through e. below separately.
a. Since the room is a perfect rectangle, it will be easier to designate each corner for a particular purpose. The front of the room would have a tiny desk for the teacher and a screen/blackboard or any such modern equivalent. The seating arrangements can be pointed to any direction since they will be lightweight and easy to move around. The storage space can be furniture that is at all the bases of the rectangle (spots other than the corners). The teacher’s office also will have a cupboard for student files.
b. There could be a gross-motor skills corner. This corner could have its own clay desk, where the kids can play with modeling clay. There could also be other activities that sharpen a child’s gross-motor skills. Another corner could be assigned to the “storytelling area.” Every kindergarten needs a space to ameliorate the children for when they get a bit hyper or exhausted. This would be a perfect corner.
c. The physical domain could have mini-slides with a soft-mat area for the teacher to conduct physical exercises for the students. The cognitive domain will be a designated learning area where the children can sit to fill their workbooks and engage in conversations. Psychosocial activities like sharing stories or addressing the class is something that would be conducted with the kids facing the board in front of the classroom. An assortment of each of these activities, with proper time designation, should help all of the kids with their social and cognitive skills.
d. The most essential is the activity area. Young children need to develop coordination and motor functions. There are several indoor rides like crawling tubes, mini slides and see-saws that are available. Every area needs a creative/ art space. Activities conducted here will include painting, craft, clay work etc.
Another essential activity is music. Children should be able to engage with musical toys and put up performances to help them expand their understanding of sounds and percussion instruments.
Paragraph 3. Teacher's area
a. The teacher’s area will be a simple space in comparison to the classroom. A cluttered room doesn’t help to unwind and relax. The teacher’s room will have a desk to conduct meetings and storage space for files. Other than that, it will have to have comfortable seating and will be a place for a teacher to take a break and relax.
b. Every side (not the corner of a rectangle) will have its own storage area. The furniture should be easily accessible despite the equipment strewn across the corners. The furniture will have to be designed keeping not only storage in mind but also the other objects in the room.
Paragraph 4. Parent's Area
a. All communication will be in the form of software. The software is easy to archive and required no storage space. The only hard copies will be a detailed file of each student. The teacher may add updates based on parent-teacher communication if necessary. All of these files will be stored in the storage space in the teacher’s office. There are several apps available that the parents and teacher will both have to download. It becomes for teachers to leave summons and for the parents to directly message the teacher without having to worry about sending emails or making calls. Meetings can be easily set up on these apps, minutes can be recorded and progress can be tracked. All without wasting a single sheet of paper. Virtual files can also be downloaded and saved for as long as necessary.
Paragraph 5. The Yard
a. The yard, just like every other space will have no complex shapes. The yard too will be a rectangle with a safety fence all around it. The yard can have its own sandpit and kids activity space. All this, on thick lawn grass that will help absorb the blow of a child falling down. There could be a gardening corner where children can learn little lessons to take care of the environment. Simple things like how to water plants, plant seeds etc. Can and should be taught at an early age.
b.
The first learning area can be dedicated to learning all about the animal kingdom. Perhaps a class pet would fit perfectly into this equation. The second could be for speech and language. Some of the activities conducted here could include public speaking. In order to boot a child’s confidence, they could speak to the class about their pets or their favourite meal or their family. This would help boost confidence and enable them to learn from exchanging stories.
An art area can be where children study art by engaging themselves in aforementioned activities. Painting, crafting or building things can be a part of this area. Since art does count in the final grade, this does not constitute an activity but a learning opportunity.
c. Gross-motor skills.
Cognitive activities
Arts
Music
Gardening
(All of these activities are described above. Please refer to it and add any other description you feel your professor may need. Tip. You may like to elaborate based on any specific child development course you are given.)
d. The above list:
Gross-motor skills. – To sharpen the function of the medulla oblongata
Cognitive activities – Absorption of information and general brain development.
Arts – This will help the students learn to translate their thoughts in to work.
Music – Understanding sounds and developing senses.
Gardening – Developing the sense of touch, smell and overall experience in this activity to increase awareness about the planet.
e. What kinds of equipment and supplies will you have available to children? Address each area separately. (I cannot be specific about this as I do not know particular product names. However, there are companies that make kindergarten supplies. Picking things from their websites should not be a problem. You could perhaps use pictures as well for reference.)
f. Approved wooden fence with gates and exits at each section. The edges of the fences will be smooth and made of varnished wood. This will help delay or prevent mold or bacteria from growing. The storage for the yard will be backing the school wall. This is so that there are no safety issues concerning objects placed at odd places in the yard.
Paragraph 6. Include in your descriptions:
a. Paramedic prescribed first aid kits along with a few medicines suggested by personal pediatrics of each student. This first aid kit will be placed in one of the storage spaces in the classroom. As for fire extinguishers, they should be based on the prescription by the fire brigade for a 700-800 sq. Ft. Area with a lawn. They are to be placed, based on the requirements of the local fire brigade.
b. Indoor cubbies should be designated areas based on their size. Since the story-telling area might just have a rug for the children, there would be enough space to accommodate a cubby as well.
c. The chairs present in class, as mentioned earlier can be easily shifted around as they are lightweight. They can be shifted to the tables in the classroom quite easily.
d. An isolation area is mostly separate from the classroom itself. This classroom too will have a separate isolation area, in case there is anything contagious infecting a child. It will be a simple room with a comfortable bed and first-aid supplies.
e. there will be a main classroom door (as usual) and one that goes out to the lawn or yard.
Paragraph 7. Also, include in your dream classroom:
a. a telephone in the teacher’s office and/or the front of the room near the teacher’s desk.
b. a sign-in area at the front of the room between the front door and the teacher’s desk.
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